Projects

In this three-year project, NREL researchers are developing an innovative, integrated,
and transformative approach to mitigate the impact of wind ramping. The project will
reduce wind integration costs by making wind power dispatchable and allowing the efficient
management of wind ramping characteristics. NREL is collaborating with industry to
test and validate this methodology, taking into account economic and reliability goals,
by integrating it into the operations of two independent system operators (MISO and
ERCOT).

WindView is an open-source situational awareness and decision support platform that
provides grid operators with knowledge of the state and performance of their power
system. Its emphasis is on wind energy and enabling the reliable and efficient integration
of larger amounts of wind energy. This three-year project involves close collaboration
with Western Area Power Authority's Electric Power Training Center to develop a production-level
version of WindView, including feedback and training sessions, for the Western Area
Power Authority network. The focus will be on advanced visualization to display pertinent
information, extracted through computational techniques, from wind power forecasts
for high-wind-penetration systems. WindView will be publicly available for industry
and academic researchers and will incorporate forecasting tools designed by NREL and
Argonne National Laboratory.